Richard Green is a professor in the Sol Price School of Public Policy and the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California.
This blog will feature commentary on the current state of housing, commercial real estate, mortgage finance, and urban development around the world. It may also at times have ruminations about graduate business education.

Saturday, August 11, 2012

Why Paul Ryan is dangerous

I was on a panel with him at the University of Wisconsin last year. Unlike his running-mate, he comes across as well-informed, and he knows how to play to his audience. He is actually personally quite charming...just very, very wrong.

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